Relief Commission announced to-day, that when the river has subsided fo the Bi fet level pumping opera ions regi The flood water in the inundated business section is estimated to total 250,000,000 gallons. After pumping, operations begin it is estimated that ten days will be required to make the business district of Hankow dr It is not yet possible to begin pumping operations.
Relief work.is continuing unabated in the Wuhan area with local off-and representatives of the ional Flood Relief Commission work. The speedy fall in the level of the Yangtze has heartened officials and the public. There can be no minimizing of the problems which will come with the autumn and the winter but the organization to cope with the disaster has been provided and it is functioning.
Foreigners and Chinese are work: ing, with complete rehabilitation as their goal and on every hand there is evident a spirit of determination to achieve as speedily as possible recovery from. the devastation HEOURHE by the foods.—United Sept. 3.
Hankow breathed a sigh of re lief to-day when it was certain that yesterday's heavy rainfall had not affected the steady drop in the flood level. Steadily. if slowly it is sirking and several Buildings whose ground ttoors are raised above street level are ndw dry.
Efforts are being made to check disease and there are now a number of sampans about the streets all day dying the red cross. All thes medical assistants who have ipplies of vaccines for This map rev the extent free inoculation against typhoid and cholera Reuter.
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